harbinger
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But it does not make a convincing case that the college-educated working class is a harbinger of broader social change.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Whether retail buying is a harbinger of better returns in the coming weeks for Tesla shares is hard to say.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
Louise Adler, the Jewish daughter of Holocaust survivors, said "I cannot be party to silencing writers" and that Abdel-Fattah's exclusion "weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation."
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026
ADP’s private-sector employment report will come out on Wednesday, two days ahead of the government’s data, but is not often seen as a reliable harbinger.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 6, 2026
As Blackmon notes: “The apparent demise...of leasing prisoners seemed a harbinger of a new day. But the harsher reality of the South was that the new post-Civil War neoslavery was evolving—not disappearing.”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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